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The January 2012 Internet-Only Auction Part 1
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Lot 1008
Estimate: $280
5cm; damp stained and faded label, sign of past seepage.
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94JG
"This has always been one of my favorite wines of the vintage (I first tasted it back in the early 1980s while still in college and it was drinking brilliantly then), and it continues to cruise along beautifully at forty-plus years of age. The nose is deep and classic Haut Brion, offering up notes of sweet black berries, cassis, singed tobacco, black truffles, Graves earth, cigar ash and a pungent topnote of violets. On the palate the wine is typically medium-full (though this most recent bottle was quite powerfully built and vigorous- is it gaining weight at this advanced age or was it just a particularly pristine bottle?), lush and velvety, with beautiful focus and balance, a creamy core of black fruit, and a long, refined and soil-driven finish. Is there a claret more defined by its soil than Haut Brion, now that Ausone has fallen? A great vintage for Haut Brion. "
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"This has always been one of my favorite wines of the vintage (I first tasted it back in the early 1980s while still in college and it was drinking brilliantly then), and it continues to cruise along beautifully at forty-plus years of age. The nose is deep and classic Haut Brion, offering up notes of sweet black berries, cassis, singed tobacco, black truffles, Graves earth, cigar ash and a pungent topnote of violets. On the palate the wine is typically medium-full (though this most recent bottle was quite powerfully built and vigorous- is it gaining weight at this advanced age or was it just a particularly pristine bottle?), lush and velvety, with beautiful focus and balance, a creamy core of black fruit, and a long, refined and soil-driven finish. Is there a claret more defined by its soil than Haut Brion, now that Ausone has fallen? A great vintage for Haut Brion. "
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The world's most influential fine-wine producer and the benchmark for Bordeaux, Burgundy, Champagne and the Rhone. Its appellation (AOC) system codifies geography, grape and method, and its wines set the global standard for age-worthiness and terroir expression.
The world's largest fine-wine region, built around blends of Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Divided by the Gironde estuary into the structured Left Bank and the plush, Merlot-led Right Bank, it is the historic benchmark for age-worthy claret and sweet Sauternes.
In the Graves, the only Bordeaux appellation renowned for both reds and dry whites. Gravelly soils yield smoky, mineral reds and age-worthy Sauvignon-Semillon blends.
Chateau Haut-Brion is a First Growth estate in Pessac-Leognan, Bordeaux, the only non-Medoc property in the 1855 classification, renowned for complex, earthy, remarkably long-lived reds and prestigious whites.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.